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? Unit 14 talks about Authentic Materials & Methods. Authentic materials, I have learned, help students understand how english is normally spoken and gives them real life experience or a real example. This unit talks about how to present that to the students and use it to help them progress with understanding english, and it gives a couple different example activities for me ( the teacher ) to use. Some examples of authentic text: ° Movie theater posters ° Newspapers ° Menus ° Documentary ° News articles ? Creating Materials. Created materials, if created properly, can be amazing for students and teachers. The whole lesson can be centered around an area that needs work, or even target a certian subject. It is time consuming, but, these are generally fun and give the students and teacher something new to work with. ? It also talks about choosing a course book. Course books have there pros and cons. ? They do layout good basic lessons for teaching english, but it could become boring for students and teacher. ? It could aslo make the teacher lazy and not as creative with their teaching methods. ? Lessons will become predictable. ? But if that is the case we the teachers can always supplement or omit whatever we feel is unimportant or irrelevant, and find a better method/activity and stick that into our lesson instead.
